What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, Michiko AoyamaA TIME BESTBOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF 2023 For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyos most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them

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The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History

Sir Peter Scott became its Patron and was later joined by Lord Shackleton

and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan –has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill

deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable

Sheena Iyengar

Underemployed

She's never had a boyfriend

shouldn't she

no boundaries ’cept the horizon

he accidentally became an MTV VJ overnight when he finished second

he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist)